DES MOINES -- Teams from central and western Iowa captured all four state championships on Saturday as the 2009 Iowa State Baseball Tournament wrapped up at Principal Park in Des Moines.

This year's state title winners include: top-ranked and top-seeded Mason City Newman in Class 1-A; No. 2-ranked and fourth-seeded Fort Dodge St. Edmond in 2-A; No. 6-ranked and fourth-seeded Norwalk in 3-A; and top-ranked and top-seeded Sioux City North in 4-A.

North (36-7) won the first-ever state baseball title for any public school from Sioux City behind Stanford recruit Dean McArdle's one-hit, 12-strikeout complete game against number-seven seed Iowa City West. The Stars won the championship game, 4-0.

Norwalk (28-13) also got a big game from its high-profile ace in the finals as Iowa recruit and Pittsburgh Pirates' draft pick Matt Dermody fired a four-hit shutout with 13 K's against seventh-seeded Storm Lake. The Warriors scored seven runs in the first inning and beat the Tornadoes, 7-0.

In Class 2-A, Fort Dodge St. Edmond (35-3) won its first state baseball title by holding off a late rally from second-seeded Beckman, Dyersville in the championship game, 11-8. Both teams had to scratch and claw to make the finals against a balanced 2-A field.

Newman (37-1) capped a dominating run to the Class 1-A title by defeating third-seeded Lenox and its talented 10-man roster, 11-1, in just five innings. Newman won all of its district, substate and state tournament games by the 10-run rule except for one - a 4-0 win over Alta in the 1-A state semifinals.


2009 State Baseball Tournament
(July 24-Aug. 1: at Principal Park, Des Moines)

Class 1-A
First-Round Scores (July 24-25)
Mason City Newman 12, E. Greene 1 (5)
Alta 10, Adair-Casey 6
Lenox 2, Calamus-Wheatland 0 (9 inn.)
Kee, Lansing 17, Tri-County 1 (4 inn.)

Semifinals (Thursday, July 30)
Mason City Newman 4, Alta 0
Lenox 11, Kee, Lansing 3

Championship (Saturday, Aug. 1)
Mason City Newman 11, Lenox 1 (5)


Class 2-A
Quarterfinals (Monday, July 27)
Solon 5, Sumner-Fredericksburg 1
Ft. Dodge St. Edmond 11, St. Albert 8
Cherokee 1, Gilbert 0 (11 innings)
Beckman, Dyersville 5, I-35, Truro 4

Semifinals (Thursday, July 30)
St. Edmond 8, Solon 4 (9 innings)
Beckman, Dyersville 1, Cherokee 0

Championship (Saturday, Aug. 1)
St. Edmond 11, Beckman, Dyersville 8


Class 3-A
Quarterfinals (Tuesday, July 28)
Boone 12, Chariton 0 (5 innings)
Norwalk 4, Decorah 1
Denison-Schl. 4, Vinton-Shellsburg 3 (8)
Storm Lake 7, Benton Community 4

Semifinals (Friday, July 31)
Norwalk 4, Boone 2
Storm Lake 16, Denison-Schleswig 6

Championship (Saturday, Aug. 1)
Norwalk 7, Storm Lake 0


Class 4-A
Quarterfinals (Wednesday, July 29)
Sioux City North 4, Marshalltown 1
Fort Dodge 4, Dowling Catholic, WDM 2
Johnston 5, Davenport Central 1
Iowa City West 9, C.R. Washington 6

Semifinals (Friday, July 31)
Sioux City North 4, Fort Dodge 3 (9)
Iowa City West 11, Johnston 4

Championship (Saturday, Aug. 1)
Sioux City North 4, Iowa City West 0